First off I would like to apologize to all who read this blog. All three of your. However I am hoping to be in double digits before the end of the year. Anyway I want to say I'm sorry to you and to myself for not being better about this. Therefor I will try and be more active on the blog and hope to get more readers.
I was fortunate enough this summer to pick up another new camera, well new to me. It is the one of the best that Canon has ever produced. So with that in mind I was really excitied about trying it out. It is suppose to have great low light capabilites, so I then figured I would go back to one of the race tracks where for almost ten years I was the track photographer.
So I call the now general manager of the oval track in Meridian,Idaho and ask if I can come out and test my new camera and new flash I purchased. I also said that I would be willing to share my images with the track. The GM doesnt see a problem with it . So I get my stuff together and decide to head on out to shoot.
Just before I leave the house the track GM calls me back and say, that I will have to pay to get in. Oh OK no problem, just fewer images for you to get that is all. So I arrive at the track, and I am charged forty dollars to get in. Well I need to test the gear, but OK I'll pay it, but that is a lot fewer photos you will get when I am done.
So then as I walk around the pit area, talking to people and catching up with them, I get asked on numerous occasions "Are you back?" "You gonna post photos were we can see them?" Thing like that. (It is nice to be missed.) Anywho just then the track general manager comes up to me and tell me..."Oh by the way, you can't shoot from the infield." I look at him and say I just paid forty dollars to come here and check out my new gear,and now I can't do what I need to do. )&*&^g^%%&ers.... I am told later by a racer that the other photographers were nervous I was there. Why I do not know.
So anyway rather than bitch and moan some more, I will just share with you a few of the images I was able to get during the daylight hours and some more towards night.
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| A night shot of Matt Elliott's sprinter. One of the few I was able to get being restricted as I was. |
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If talent equaled money, this young lady would be able to fund her way into driving in either Camping World
Truck Series or in the Nationwide Series. Sierra Jackson is a true talent. |
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| It used to be you would never see a green race car. It was bad luck. So much for wives tales. |
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| I posted this photo because it was actually shot through a chain link fence |
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| Another local stand out Ryan Newman (not that one) at the wheel of Matt Elliott's black #77 |
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| Local super star Mike Murgoitio, spent some time back east driving for Tony Stewart. |
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| Two of my favorite things; Day-Glo Orange and Sprint cars |
